practical web design & development

Archive for October, 2007

Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit A Bad Idea?

Well, just as everyone else has done, I have upgraded to Ubuntu 6.10 64 bit, Gutsy Gibbon. Boy oh Boy was it a great move! The graphics are wonderful, pidgin is groovy, and adding and removing Firefox plugins are a piece of cake. I couldn’t ask for an easier Ubuntu.. or could I? While I [...]

Impromptu Demonstrations

Many of the questions for Impromptu are concerning how exactly to use Impromptu as a confirm to remove an element from a list(database or just the dom). Its actually pretty easy, and so I whipped up an example of removing users from a database. Each user has a userid which I pass to the php [...]

So I stumbled into a problem where I didn’t want to actually use server side code to actually write javascript. I have an accordian menu, and according to which subpage I am on I want to show that part of the accordian menu automatically on page load. My task became to retrieve just the name [...]

Just this past week I stumbled upon a new problem. I have a website which will be soon changing domain names. The hosting will stay the same, only switching domain names. One of the first problems I want to watch out for is page rank on various search engines and do a 301 redirect. Secondly, [...]

Does anyone out there think they have a cool Impromptu design?  I’ll be the first to admit the design in the doc’s isn’t exactly eye-catching.  That being said I would like to make an Impromptu Design Repository.  Within there we could share images of other’s Impromptus or even CSS.  If you have a design you [...]